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- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 day ago:
Even without direct interaction, it’s easier to know someone as “the guy in the cabin on hillside road with the blue Honda CRV and the beard”. I assume that’s what the comment meant since they tied privacy to anonymity
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 2 days ago:
Without seeing what you’ve seen, that honestly sounds more like a symptom of the platform, current internet trends, and algorithm gaming than it sounds like a cheesy viral marketing campaign
- Comment on Gal Gadot is just a more feminine Tommy Wiseau 2 days ago:
I need to know as well. I hope they get out of the shower soon to tell us
- Comment on Are color palettes subject to copyright protection? 2 days ago:
Doesn’t he have a bean to flick?
- Comment on Are Zambonis right-side drive in countries that use right-side drive cars? 4 days ago:
But I have heard of international figure skaters
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
Found one item real quick, Husky Foam Kneeling pad. Same price of $14.88 for NYC, LA, Nebraska, and Delaware.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
That’s not my tax rate, although it’s a good guess. It occurs across a number of store sin my area, although all in the same state. My theoretical benign explanation is its an inventory code for short term items around holidays. I’ll probably be there later today and see what I can find
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
$14.88 is an obnoxiously common price for temporary box display items at home depot. Gloves, kneeling pads, drill bit kits. Always gets an eyebrow from me
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
Tesla has airways had volitility. It goes up when musk overhype it, it goes down when tesla underdelivers. I had some stock and got off that roller coaster when the truck was unveiled. I stopped believing it was above board at all.
Sick nazi reference in the numbers though.
- Comment on Maybe time travelers actually exist and this mess of a timeline is the result of their interference... 1 week ago:
I went to my local outburst of drones in the fall. 95% were regular-ass planes spotted by people who don’t understand you have no frame of reference for a dot of light in terms of speed, distance, altitude, or size. Every blinky light was cause for concern.
- Comment on When I sort by "newest" why is the top post a month old? 1 week ago:
I see you were given some confirmation it’s a larger problem. To explain why we needed more details, “lemmy” is not a singular site. You registered on lemm.ee, while I’m on lemmy.world, which are 2 out of dozens of different “instances”. Some other popular ones include lemmy.ml, Midwest.social, and kbin.social. These instances all federated together, meaning they have the ability to view and interact with each other. The “community” (like a subreddit if that’s where you come from) you posted to here is hosted on my home instance, lemmy.world. You’ll also see the term “defederation” used. If two instances constantly fight or, say, an instance creates a constant influx of bad actors, an instance may decide to defederate with that instance. This cuts off that interoperability between the two. There are ways to block them on your own as well, I believe.
On top of that, we’re all using different clients. Some from a web browser, some on various mobile apps such as jerboa, connect, etc.
This means to diagnose your problem (and any future problem), we need info to determine if this is a you-problem, an app problem, and instance problem, or a community problem.
Good luck. Stick around. It’s quiet here compared to wherever you came from, most likely, but you’ll probably find a bunch of the same people over and over. It takes some adjustment.
- Comment on I have no proof but also no doubt that all of Musk's lackeys at DOGE talk exactly like Ben Shapiro. 1 week ago:
Plot twist: they talk like this to each other, knowing they’re the only smart one out of the 100 employees while the other 99 are constaly bullshitting. Each and every one of them thinks this.
- Comment on DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy 1 week ago:
You ever play Assassin’s Creed?
- Comment on Day 248 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
Idk, maybe I’m the one who phased out of cup stacking by being old. But still, we can’t be that far off from when explaining cup stacking will sound like how I feel about pole sitting.
Skrillex is sort of the face of mainstreamed dubstep. I just learned his subgenre is brostep. The work that came before him was… Gritty. Close to the Key & Peele skit. The FC3 song is closer to common EDM.
Sierra Leone by Mt Eden is probably what I’d use as an example of the best of traditional dubstep
- Comment on What model Black SUV is in this test video? 1 week ago:
The numbers used to denote the engine and trim, to an extent. The letters are the important part. RX series, as opposed to NX or LX
- Comment on What mythologies have poor representation in media, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Look at symbols of Christian holidays, then read where they came from. I’d say that represents misrepresented mythologies. It’s all stolen symbolism to blot out the competition.
The Easter bunny giving eggs? Spring is about fucking and both of those are symbols of fertility.
- Comment on Day 248 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
4 is very similar to 3, in my opinion. It generally ranks lower than 3, but I’d attribute that to 3 defining expectations and 4 meeting expectations rather than pulling another groundbreaking move. 3 shared some notable elements with 2 but refined the direction of FC. 2 doesn’t have magic and FC enjoyers begroaned 3’s supernatural element, but here we are.
5 removed the supernatural element and got some mixed feelings. I’d put some of that on the fact that they brought the white American savior trope home to America. Instead of a foreign land under a whimsical authoritarian regime the West likes to go to war with, it’s a religious cult in classic Americana rural towns. It’s like changing from 1990s Batman movies to the Nolan trilogy. Gritty, more realistic, closer to historical fiction than fantasy. It harks back to the 1993 Waco Massacre.
I’ve played 6 on and off over the last few years. I read lots of hate but still enjoyed it. It’s in Cuba, so it was back to being a far-off fantasy for me, with lots of story rooted in the 1960s revolution (though the game is present day). That is until the Gaza war flared up. Suddenly the game got uncomfortable for me. You play as a terrorist group fighting the military. That’s not exactly different from 4. Sure, if you win, it’s a revolution, but if you lose, historical speaking, the winners call it terrorism. I suppose the story could be considered weaker, but it’s a change up. Instead of basing the story on you vs the big bad, it’s rooted more in the friends you make along the way. You’re building a revolution as one faction gathering 3 more.
There’s also 3 half-games. Between the main titles, half of the prior maps for alternate experiments. I’d wait for all the titles to be discounted but would say the halfsies need to be discounted more. Granted, they’re probably all regularly under $20 now anyway.
After 3 came Blood Dragon, using one of the islands for an over the top 1980s synthwave action comedy. It has corny 80s moves in lieu of superpowers. It’s fun.
After 4 came Primal, a prehistoric version of the FC formula. I think it’s neat that they developed a proto-proto-indo-european language for a 10,000BC setting. Spears, slings, clubs, and knives are the weapons here with some grenade-like items. There’s spiritual elements resembling living a mythology. It’s also fun.
After 5, New Dawn is actually a continuation of the story. A quasi-Fallout/Mad Max post-nuke-apocalypse world in which Joseph Seed still lives - and becomes an ally. I think it brought in supernatural powers from nuclear stuff. Probably my least favorite of the 3, but still enjoyable. It also introduced a number of the elements people begroaned in 6, so maybe that’s why I don’t mind 6 as much.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a halfsies between 6 and, presumably, an upcoming 7. 6 does have some extra story (dlc?) that has you relive parts of the prior titles. I haven’t done them nor read about them much so I can experience them myself.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
That take would be more digest able if I wasn’t stuck on the same planet as those people.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
Thank you for catching that. Even reading through again, I couldn’t find it while skimming. With the mention of X2 and RSS, I assumed that paragraph would just be more technical description outside my knowledge. Instead, what I did hone in on was
“No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense.”
Leading me to be pessimistic.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
I get it. I’d bet the other commenters don’t have kids. There’s hypothetical jokes about kids, then there’s jokes to someone about their actual kid. Commenting on a post VS replying to this person who has a kid.
I grew up with a very paranoid father. Somehow this guy has a stack of rough city survival stories but I couldn’t leave the suburban block. I don’t know the best way to raise a kid, but a watch and more freedom to roam sounds nice.
- Comment on Day 248 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
Make it Bun Dem by Skrillex and Damien Marley
I’m glad you enjoyed the song. I don’t know your age, but seeing that screenshot made me realize how hard it’d be to explain the popularity of dubstep and, in particular, Skrillex to anyone who wasn’t there. Same goes for the immortalization of the “oh my god!” featured in Nice Sprites and Scary Monsters, screamed by the girl who stacked cups in record time. Or stacking cups. This feels like the making of an “onion tied to my belt” type of rambling story. I imagine most of this platform was there for dubstep and that the young adults today had way more internet access than I did as a kid, so it’s probably not even unknown yet.
The song shuffles into my playlist sometimes and takes me back to both that game moment and the generalized memory of blasting that from my ipod nano into my grandpa’s handmedown Ford Taurus with the headphone wire I hardwired into the cassette deck. If you think dubstep sounds bad now, I made it sound worse.
What a coincidence. I looked up the Key & Peele skit about dubstep. My exact generation of Taurus is involved, identified by the circular rear window. The skit is worth it on its own, of course
- Comment on NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry. 1 week ago:
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- Comment on NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry. 1 week ago:
Please check that the recipient list is not [human population] before clicking “Reply All”
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
Will this further fuck up the inaccurate nature of AI results? While I’m rooting against shitty AI usage, the general population is still trusting it and making results worse will, most likely, make people believe even more wrong stuff.
- Comment on Day 246 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
This was his breakout and now everyone expects his fake accent! But definitely Chek out his little live action FC3 scene where he tortures McLovin if not already seen
- Comment on Day 246 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
FC3 was the first to make drug trips part of story progression (leaving a little leeway for FC2’s malaria bouts). FC4 had a lot of “spiritual” events. FC5 played a lot with Bliss trips. I’m wrapping up FC6 now and was just saying “man, where are all the hallucinatory story arcs?”. Then I did the Oluso mission (panther amigo) and felt at home for a minute. It didn’t last long, but I guess the reward is bringing back a little supernatural power to the game, late in the campaign.
- Comment on The only right way to watch FOX news is to pretend you're a billionaire or actually be a billionaire. Otherwise I can't see it be anything but masochistic. 2 weeks ago:
Or believe you’ll be a billionaire once your side takes over. Every viewer I’ve talked to believes in systemic financial hardship, but believes it’s because of monetary inconveniences placed:
- on them individually (by way of taxes),
- on companies (socio-economic and environmental regulations preventing corporate benevolence from paying more to employees),
- And on the global economy by poorer countries taking our jobs with cheap labor and lesser regulation (somehow absolving American companies as the cause of outsourcing due to #2)
- Comment on does someone who lives very far away from me (for example 1900 miles) see the same night sky as me? (as in moon, stars, etc) 3 weeks ago:
While I’ve read every comment and found no real flaws, I’m here to add the one thing that makes the sky different (aside from east/west delays). Conjunctions won’t happen at the same time - or maybe not at all. You’ll see just about the same stars (with maybe a 3 hour delay) and the local bodies will be about the same. As long as you don’t try to watch the moon occulting a planet or eclipaing the sun, it’ll be the same sky. The lunar eclipse in a few days will look identical though, minus some negligible differences in viewing angle of the moon’s face. But the moon blocking some farther object is the only thing I can think of celestially that would be different. Just 50 miles of separation changed the perception of how the moon crossed the sun in the April 2024 North American solar eclipse. Some saw it go down, others up. The last and first sliver of solar crescent was different for everyone watching.
Orientation may flip as well if either of you is within 22N or 22S, stemming from the 22 degree tilt of the earth’s rotation. Depends on season and time of day. Northern hemisphere mostly sees celestial bodies to the south, southern hemi sees them to the north, tropical sees them north, south, overhead, and crossing.
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 3 weeks ago:
Setting up an ERP can also be completely botched if the company’s representatives don’t fully grasp all the functions needed. What I’ve been going through as a customer of an ERP suite is that the “stars” of the software don’t actually understand the other 50% of functions outside their department. That remaining 50% is distributed among 4 other departments, so representation wasn’t exactly prioritized. Add in high turnover circa 2021 and the whole thing is logistical nightmare that finally at least has a goal in sight.
The other underlying issue is the existing forms usually lack what we need and have too much fluff. Once our ERP partner modifies it, the ERP developer drops all support for that form. We get zero help when it gets mystery glitches.
So yeah, I can get why some places say fuck it and stick with excel. Half the workforce knows excel well enough to write what they need. Take 10% of them to format and lock down spreadsheets so the other 50% of the workforce can just fill in boxes and pick drop downs. It just works.
All that to say, I both expect more form a Healthcare company but also am not surprised.
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 4 weeks ago:
If you go to the other side of the world, there’s a good chance your actions won’t be understood or might even convey the opposite meaning. Namely, mixing western and Asian body language is messy, depending on how much British colonization happened in the Asian half of the dialogue.
Source: I’ve been to India with Americans that believed they could communicate if they repeated their English statement slower, with the same verbal shortcuts, and angrier. This works in the big cities at customer service. The success rate drops as population density drops.